The inpatient units are organized around the subspecialty services in order to facilitate patient care and improve teaching opportunities. The Red Team is comprised of residents and faculty that admit all hematology/oncology, endocrinology, nephrology, gastroenterology, and surgery patients. The residents and faculty from the Red Team provide daily care to general pediatric surgery patients less than two years of age and provide pediatric consultation for all other surgical patients as needed. The Blue Team admits general pediatrics, pulmonology, cardiology, postoperative cardiovascular surgery patients, and neurology patients.

All patients younger than 28 days are cared for in the nursery areas, which include the normal newborn nursery, and the Special Care Nurseries made up by the neonatal intensive care unit and intermediate care nursery.

Each of these inpatient services is staffed by: faculty pediatricians who make daily teaching rounds and who are administratively responsible for the patients on the service; one second- or third-year supervisory pediatric resident; two to three first-year residents; one fourth-year medical student and three junior medical students. Daily teaching and patient management rounds are conducted by attending faculty physicians.

Each first-year resident assigned to an inpatient service will be given primary responsibility for his/her assigned patients, but will have ready access to consultation and assistance from the senior resident and from all members of the pediatric faculty. Residents contribute actively to the training and education of the junior medical student clerks assigned to them in the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of their patients.

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